Photos: A walk thru ...Puttaparthi - Festival of Divine Love - 15th Nov - 23rd Nov.

Home     Darshan Update & Photos Sai Baba's 85th birthday 23rd November 2010 -   Festival of Divine Love -  15th Nov - 23rd Nov.         15th Nov. 16th Nov. 17th Nov. 18th Nov.  19th Nov.           20th Nov. 21st Nov. 22nd Nov. 23rd Nov. As Prasanthi gears up                 A walk thru ...Puttaparthi     New! Message of the Lord - A 30 Episode Video Serial Join:  "Happy Birthday Sri Sathya Sai Baba"  on the Facebook   85th Birthday Celebrations Programme Calendar-Prasanthi Nilayam 2010   Akhanda Bhajan Video and Photos       Message of the Lord  - A 30 Episode Video Serial Video Episode :  Intro - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 -27 - 28 - 29 - 30   Thu, Nov 18, 2010 85th Birthday News & Photos - Festival of Divine Love:   Ratotsavam is an annual feature that normally comes as a forerunner to the grand Birthday Celebrations of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. ..And ever since its inception many years ago, this festivity has been a fixed schedule for the 18th November. For so many years, this day had been tagged with another big event, Narayana Seva, en mass for the villagers in and around Puttaparthi, where in Bhagawan would present Himself through and through, along with hundreds of University students and sevadal volunteers, held at the Vidyagiri Sports Stadium.   A walk thru ...Puttaparthi       An SSSVIP exhibition of various Indian states is being held in the Sri Sathya Sai Indoor Stadium. Bhagawan graced the occasion, making a surprise visit at the stadium on the 16th evening beyond the sunset. The exhibition is thrown open to the devotees and the timings are: This morning, at around 0945 hrs. the procession began from the bhajan hall with the idols, mainly Venugopala Swami idol, were taken out to be mounted on the main chariot stationed outside the main gopuram gate. The idols were taken out in a procession with the escort of Vedam and Bhajans by group of students from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning. A walk thru ...Puttaparthi click to view photos   Upon mounting the idols on the chariot, coconuts were broken and arathi was offered before the procession continued with great religious fervour attended by students and hundreds of villagers. The ecstatic mood of the village folk dancing to the tune of drumbeats, breaking coconuts and offering arathi enroute, is evidential of the religious fervour attached to the festive occasion. The Venugopala Swami idol will be mounted at the Pedda Venkama Raju Kalyanamandapa before return procession commences, carrying the Sita Rama idols, a custom that has been in place ever since the Chariot Festival began in Parthi.   || Samastha Lokaaha Sukhino Bhavanthu ||